multisite database installation

hello, i am new to both the group and drupal in general. Although i have been aware of drupal, i have not tried a serious installation of it beyond the core installation. I now have a project, that i would like to make a real attempt into integrating with the drupal universe. i plan on installing a drupal 6.2 installation on a unix server running, apache 2.2.9, php 5.2.6, mysql 5.0.51a.

Warning - I'm a noob, please be gentle

Here's a pretty much self-documented settings.php file showing how I've got my multi-site working. If someone familiar with Drupal's (v5) database structures could scan this and comment I'd really appreciate it. Note ALL the core tables are listed here, as per grepping "CREATE TABLE" from the .install files.


$db_prefix = array(
'default' => 'watchout_drupal.shb1sh_', /* new tables get created here, /
/ need to analyze and then add (shared or separate?) below /
'cache' => 'shb1sh_', / must be separate /
'cache_filter' => 'shb1sh_', / must be separate /
'cache_menu' => 'shb1sh_', / must be separate /
'cache_page' => 'shb1sh_', / must be separate /
'variable' => 'shb1sh_', / must be separate /
'accesslog' => 'shb1sh_', / site tracking - separate /
'client' => 'shb1sh_', / site tracking - separate /
'client_system' => 'shb1sh_', / site tracking - separate /
'flood' => 'shb1sh_', / site tracking - separate /
'watchdog' => 'shb1sh_', / site tracking - separate

At DrupalCon 08, I demo'd my module multisite_manager. This is only peripherally related to Drupal in Education, and for that I apologize. However, there was some interest at the education BOF, so I figured I'd post here on updates (and unless encouraged further, I won't mention it here again).